Jacob rees



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB BEES, OE ELKHORN GROVE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO JONAH L. REES, OF SAME PLACE.

MACHINE FOR FORMING BARR/ELS, &C.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 21,725, dated October 5, 1858.

T0 all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, JACOB Rans, of Elkhorn Grove, in the county of Ogle and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machinery for Forming and Putting Together Barrels, Kegs, Casks, Sac.; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the method of constructing and manner of operating the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which the figure is a perspective view of the machine.

The nature of my improvements consist in constructing machinery whereby the staves of barrels, casks, and kegs, are put together, the bulge or swell formed, and the chamfering and crozing of each end are done simultaneously, and forming the barrel ready for receiving the hoops and headings.

To enable others to be skilled in the construction, and operation of my improvements the following is a description thereof.

In the figure a, a, a, c, a, a, are end timbers connected together by longitudinal rails b, Z), b 0, c, c are'uprights connected together by a cross rail d, CZ; c, f, g, la, form a shall additional frame work attached to the main framing. At i, z', z', v1, are projecting arms or supports, with suspension blocks J, J. At 7c, 7J, 7c, 7c, are small pulleys, or band wheels, supported in suitable bearings L, L, L, L, attached to the longitudinal rails b, At m, m, is a suitable shaft or axle to which are attached straps n, n, n, n, n, a, and which pass around over the pulley K, K. To the end of the shaft or axle at m2 is attached a ratchet wheel 0, 0, and at P is a clutch attached by a loose joint to a lever handle g, Q which works loosely around the end m2. At r, is a stop or pawl to ratchet wheel. At s, s, s, s2, is a cylinder like device, with an opening or bore through its center. This cylinder about the center of its length is formed with jaw like joint places t, t, t, t, one portion of the length of the cylinder being shaped tapering or cone like, as at s2, so as to admit of the forming the joint places. In said joint places are radial arms o, o, o, c, o, o, held in place by pins or bolts as shown in the notches o, o, o.

To the ends of the radial arms, are segmental pieces fw, fw, fw,` fw forming a perfect circle giving the required circumference or size of bulge or the swell of the barrel, cask or keg to be formed. At fr, w are end disks, attached permanently to the cylinder s, s, s, 32. To the pendant blocks J, J, are connection, suspension bows, y, g/,'3/, y to the ends of which are attached metallic, tightening bands, or clamps a, a, a, a, a, a, a, arranged immediately over and around the disks The said tightening clamps or bands are not closed or united, but instead their ends are att-ached to the straps or bands n, a, a, a. At &, &, &, &, are guide bands attached to the extremities of the bows y, y, y, y. These guide bands are open at their ends, about the usual width of a stave.

Through the perforated, or hollow cylinder s, s, 8, s2, passes a revolving shaft or axle a2, to the opposite end of which, are attached band pulleys b2, 3. This shaft or axle is supported at one end by suitable box bearings c2, c2, while the end a2, extends six or more inches beyond the disk ai, ai. Through this end of the shaft or axle is a mortise in which is inserted the shank end of a crozing and chamfering tool d2. Around the shank is a spiral spring e2. At f2, is the crozing knife, and at g2, is the chamfering blade. At 71,2, 71,2, are spiral springs, having one end inserted in the disk a?, and the other end formed with a hook 2, I2 and inserted in holes formed in radials o, o.

The operation of my barrel forming machine is as follows, viz: A stave is taken in hand, and passed under and through the open ends of the iron hoops or clamps a, .a at the point marked 7a2 of the guide bands &, &, passing the stave horizontally across `disks m, m, and also over the bulge forming segments w, fw, w. In this way all the required staves to form a barrel, are arranged around the cylinder; and after al1 the staves are adjusted, the clamps a, a, are tightened through the action of the lever handle g, g,

which being lifted upward causes the shaft or axle m, m to rotate, and as the bands or straps n, a, are connected thereto, and also to the ends of the tightening hoops, or clamps a, a, the staves J2, J2, J2, J2, are held firmly against the disks m, m, and the swell or bulge forming devices fv, o, fu, t', are forced straight in position, when the seg- Inentals w, fw, w, fw bear up against the inside of the staves and give them the required swell or bulge.

It must be observed that in `order the better to keep the staves together, confining hoop of thin Inetal or truss bands may be used. After the barrel is properly put together, the shaft or axle, a2, a2 is setin inotion, by a belt passing over the vpulley b2. There are crezing and chainfering tools, at-

tachedto the shaft or axle a2, a2, outside of f rpawl P, Y, when the shaft or axle m, m can be reversed when the straps or bands, n, it will slacken causing the clamps to relieve the barrel, when it can with little effort be slipped oli the cylinder, and disks s, s, m, a'. The drawing or slipping o' of the barrel causes the radial arms o, o, o, to close forward, toward s2, and after the barrel is of, the radiale e .e .e resume their position, by the agency of the spiral springs ft2, k2.

The spiral spring e2, e2, around the shank of the crozing and chamfering tool presses the tool up to the groove or channel of the stave, so as, to cause the proper depth, and act as an automatic feeding device.

After the barrel has beenV formed, and slipped fromV off the forming e'ylinderthe required hoops being at hand are slipped over the end of the barrel in the usual inanner and the headings inserted, thus forming and completing a barrel in a very brief space of time. y

The radial arms fu, e, o, o, may not only be arranged on joint pins so as to open out and close up, but may also be so constructed as to extend outwardly' forming larger or smaller swells or bulges in shape.

Having described the nature, construction, and operation of my improvement in inachinery for putting ytogether Astaves', and forming barrels, ready for hooping and heading, what I claim as new and useful and desire to have secured by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is f Y Y The construction of the cylinderl s, s, s2, with the radial. arms o, 21, 0, e, and segmental parts w, w, w, fr0, w, the disks zu, w, w, the circular clamps e, e, e, e, and guide bands &, &., &, 8a, the suspension devices I, I, J, J, Y, Y, arranged and operated as described.

JACOB BEES. [1.. s] Witnesses:

MASON CRARY. R. l?. GRANT. 

